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1 Peseta Alforja
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alforja (Municipality of Alforja) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | L'Ajuntament d'Alforja ha creat aquest Paper-Moneda tant sols a l'objecte de facilitar les transaccions dintre el poble. Alforja, 15 Juny 1937 VALOR 1'00 PTA. (Translation: The City Council of Alforja has created this Paper-Money only for the purpose of facilitating transactions within the town. Alforja, June 15, 1937 Value 1.00 Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in red on cream paper, with the denomination numeral '1' and abbreviation 'Pta.' repeated in each of the four corners. A large central cartouche with a dotted geometric background fills the note, bearing the bold legend 'AJUNTAMENT D'ALFORJA' in large block capitals. A serial number is handstamped in black at the centre of the cartouche, and the printer's imprint 'IMP. DE FERRANDO. – REUS.' appears in small type along the bottom margin. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of fractional coinage as hoarding and disruption collapsed small-change circulation almost entirely. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities responded by issuing their own emergency paper — these locally produced notes are catalogued collectively under the term "moneda de paper local." Alforja, a small village in the Camp de Tarragona with a population well under a thousand, was among them. Three signatures were required for validity: the mayor, the economics councillor, and the treasurer — a degree of bureaucratic formality that speaks to how seriously even tiny administrations took the legitimacy of their improvised currency.
Imprenta de Ferrando operated out of nearby Reus, the regional printing hub for much of this Tarragona-area emergency paper.